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10 December
A line is tangent to a curve if the line touches the curve at exactly one point.
The line is tangent to the parabola . What is ?
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A line that is tangent to a parabola must be a tangent to the minimum (or maximum) point.
can be rewritten as . The minimum of this will be at .
If , then is 800.
